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MANIFOLDING AUTOGRAPHIG TABLET. No. 535,313. Patented Mar. 5", 1-895.

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WILLIAM ASSHETON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO DAVID STEWART AND CHARLES J. CARROLL, OF SAME PLACE.

MANIFOLDING AUTOGRAPHIC TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,313, dated March 5, 1 895.

Application filed December 8, 1894. Serial No. 531,173. (No model.)

copies of a check, bill-head or ticket from asingle strip of paper at one writing.

The object of the invention is to provide a manifolding machine which will employ a single strip of paper rolled on a core, spool or shaft, and combine the same with a platen and mechanism whereby the said single strip of paper from one roller will produce duplicate copies of a bill, check or ticket at one writing.

The drawings herewith illustrate the invention.

Figure l is a side view of the improved machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of same, showing the paper strip in position. Fig. 3 is a top view of the machine with paper strip in position. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 4-4: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the drawer for holding the carbon paper.

The letter, A, designates the bed or platen supported on two standards or side pieces, B, which, in this instance, are connected at the rear end by a curved or rounded plate, C. A cross shaft, D, passes horizontally through 3 5 the two standards or side pieces and serves to support the paper roll, D. This roll is a single continuous strip of paper suitable for a large number of blanks, and may be plain or unprinted, or it may be printed in forms of short lengths which, when detached, serve as bill-heads, checks or tickets.

A guide roller, a, extends across between the two side supports and another guide roller,

f, is mounted above the one first named and 4 5 at one end of the platen and at the other end are two rollers, i,,7', one being a guide roller and the other a reversing roller. The strip of paper from the roll, D, passes under the roller,

a, then up and over the roller, f, then along or above the platen, A, to the reversing roller, j.

This constitutes the first stretch, h. On this stretch is placed the end, m, of a strip of carbon paper indicated in Figs. 2 and 4 by a broken line. Then the paper is passed up and over the roller, j, and then down between the roller,j, and the guide roller, 2', and is finally passed back again above the platen and above the carbon paper, thus forming the second stretch, 72 which is passed under the cutterbar, 1*, which latter is pivoted at r.

The carbon paper, 171, comes from a roll, m, contained in a pocket or drawer, E, which projects from the outside through one of the sides, B, and has position below the platen, A. One side, B, has an opening, 70, to receive the pocket or drawer, E, and the latter has front flanges,

Z, which fit against the vertical side. It also has a top flange, 0, which presses against the rail or bar, p, over the opening, it, in the side. This top flange, 0, serves as a retainer for the strip end of carbon paper, m, which is over the platen, A. This strip end, m, of carbon paper comes from the roll, m, in the drawer, and in Fig. 4 is indicated by a broken line. It passes from the roll in the drawer up between the top flange, o, and the rail or bar, 19, and thence over the platen. Two turn-buttons, q, or other suitable fastening device, serve to confine the pocket or drawer and keep its top flange, o, pressed inward. It will be seen the carbon paper is clamped between the said top flange,

0, of the drawer and the bar, 10, and the part,

1%, which is over the platen is thus retained in its position.

A plate, 8, extends horizontally across from 8 5 one side to the other and serves as a support for the hand of the writer.

The end, n, of the top stretch of writing paper is at the cutter-bar, r, and it is only necessary to grasp this end and pull forward until both manifold copies have passed the cutter-bar. This withdrawal of the written copies supplies the platen with paper for two more copies.

The carbon paper is held at one side only 5 of the platen and as it is free and unconfined at the other side, it does not bind or restrict the drawing of the continuous paper strip. In withdrawing the written copies one stretch, h, moves in the opposite direction from the other I00 stretch, 71?. Consequently the piece of carbon paper, m, between these two oppositely-mow ing stretches is unmoved or undisturbed because the friction or pull on the carbon paper is counterbalanced in the two directions and the free end of the carbon paper will remain in its position unmoved.

The single continuous strip of writing paper and the carbon paper are always set in readiness for use. Each transaction noted in writing on the top stretch of paper produces two copies.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an autographic manifolding-machine, the combination of a case having a platen; a shaft in the case for supporting a roll of paper; a roller at each of the opposite ends of the platen by means of which a single continuous strip of paper may be drawn to form two stretches movable in opposite directions; a carbon-paper holder at one side of the platen; and a strip of carbon-paper held only at one side of the platen by said holder and projecting across the platen and free and unconfined at the other side of the platen, whereby a continuous strip of paper in two stretchesone above and the other below the carbon-papermoving in opposite directions will counterbalance the friction or pull on the carbonpaper, thus allowing the free end of the car bon paper to remain in its position unmoved, substantially as described.

2. In an autographic manifolding machine, the combination of a case having a top forming a platen and side standards or supports below the platen-one of said sides having an opening with a top bar, 10, over the opening; a drawer entered through said opening and projecting into the interior of the case and the exterior of the drawer being flush with the exterior side of said standard,said drawer having a top flange, o, to contact with the said top bar; a carbon-paper strip in said drawer and passing between the drawer-flange and top-bar and thereby held at one side of the platen, and extending across the platen and its extremity being free and unconfined at the other side of the platen; and a fastening device to confine the drawer and keep its top flange pressed inward, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ASSHETON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. MANN, J12, O. CALVERT HINEs. 

